Mark Beeson

Reconfiguring East Asia

Regional Institutions and Organizations After the Crisis

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Produktbeschreibung

The recent economic crisis in East Asia has profoundly altered both the way the region is now perceived and expectations about its future. Even though the initial crisis has abated somewhat, its impact on the region has been profound. Although much attention was initially paid to rather narrow questions of crisis management and debates about 'crony capitalism', less attention has been given to the way the crisis has impacted on, and been mediated by, regional institutions and organizations. It is this absence that the book seeks to address. It focuses both on specific regional organizations like ASEAN, The Asian Development Bank, and APEC, as well as on key institutions such as East Asian legal systems, the media, organized labour, Asian business systems, and the developmental state. It shows how these institutions are linked to national, intra- regional and inter-regional forces, and develops a multi-dimensional picture of the regions and the complex array of forces that are shaping it. The book concludes byaddressing the key question of whether regional institutions and organizations are encouraging 'convergence' on western lines, or whether the region is sticking to a divergent path which is institutionalized in its own distinctive ways. Contributors include Javed Maswood, Griffith University; Kanishka Jayasuriya, City University of Hong Kong; Mukul Asher, University of Singapore; Gary Rodan, Murdoch University; Mark Beeso

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780700714780
• ISBN-10: 0700714782
• Artikelnr.: 22253923

Autorenporträt

Mark Beeson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Asian and International Studies, Griffith University. His research interests are centred on the way globalisation has affected the political economy of the broadly conceived Asia-Pacific region.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of
Figures List of Tables Introduction 1. Theorising Institutional Change in
East Asia Mark Beeson Part I. Institutions 2. Developmental States in
Crisis S. Javed Maswood 3. The East Asian Financial Crisis: Midwife to a
Movement? Nicola Bullard 4. The Implications of the Asian Crisis for Media
Control in Asia Gary Roddan 5. Social Security Institutions in Southeast
Asia after the Crisis Mukul G. Asher 6. The Rule of Law and Governance in
East Asia Kanishka Jawasuriya 7. Social Movement Unionism in East Asia?
Regional and South Korean Union Responses to the Crisis Patricia Ranald 8.
Capitalism in East Asia: The Political Economy of Business Organisation in
Japan, Korea and China Mark Beeson and Leong Liew Part II. Organisations 9.
The ASEAN Regional Forum: Material and Ideational Dynamics Cameron J. Hill
and William T. Tow 10. ASEAN: The Challenges of Organisational Reinvention
Mark Beeson 11. The Asian Development Bank: Time to Wind It Up? Edward J.
Lincoln 12. Institutional Evolution at the Trans-Regional Level: APEC and
the Promotion of Liberalisation John Ravenhill 13. Conclusion: The More
Things Change? Path Dependency and Convergence in East Asia Mark Beeson
Index